Bergman B
Department of Clinical Neuroscience and Family Medicine, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge Hospital, Sweden.
Addiction. 1997 Sep;92(9):1183-8.
The aim of this paper is to highlight the complexity in the connection between alcohol intoxication and responsibility for crime from a multidisciplinary approach comprising medical, legal and criminological perspectives. There is no doubt that there is a connection between violent behaviour and alcohol intoxication. However, several investigations show that alcohol heightens aggressiveness only when the drunken person is provoked. A case which may serve as a model when discussing legal responsibility for acts carried out when drunk is outlined. Ethical considerations are discussed and exemplified concerning the motive, as well as the principles, of punishing an intoxicated perpetrator. However, there are no definite solutions concerning what is right or wrong, and each reader will have his own opinion, which may well differ from that of the author.
本文旨在从医学、法律和犯罪学等多学科角度，突出酒精中毒与犯罪责任之间联系的复杂性。毫无疑问，暴力行为与酒精中毒之间存在联系。然而，多项调查表明，只有在醉酒者受到挑衅时，酒精才会加剧攻击性。文中概述了一个在讨论醉酒时实施行为的法律责任时可作为典范的案例。文中讨论并举例说明了涉及惩罚醉酒犯罪者的动机及原则的伦理考量。然而，关于什么是对什么是错并没有明确的解决方案，每位读者都可能有自己的观点，而且很可能与作者的观点不同。
